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Demur
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To dispute a legal Pleading or a statement of the facts being alleged through the use of a demurrer.
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A skylit reading room demurs serenely at centre, surrounded by stacks in the nineteenth-century manner.
Les chambres de bois: Montreal's handsome new Bibliotheque is a ... by Boddy, Trevor / The Architectural Review
It's only when you get to that upper echelon of celebrity that people want to know what you do," he demurs.
It's peachy for Keene: musician's musician Tommy Keene releases a new ... by Reighley, Kurt B. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
As he demurs from battle, he utters the eternal advice to all self-serving hypocrites, ``The better part of valor is discretion.
SEE A SHALLOW HAL GROW IN 'HENRY IV, PART 1' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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